.....times of refreshing.....

Well, happy mid-autumn festival folks and I guess you folks have a great time. As for me, I guess playing lanterns with my kids and having lots of mooncakes over the last few weeks can be considered celebrated. :)  It's Monday and I am back in Singapore to work. It's a long day for me too as I am rushing to get a project out and thus, stayed in the office till almost eight in the evening. Reached home at around 9pm+ and I thought it's a good idea to check out Japanese Ramen in Men-ichi restaurant, Northpoint Shoppung Centre. It's been awhile since I last patronised this eatery.

Men-ichi Ramen restaurant

getting ready....

It was quiet at 9.30pm which could be due to the mid-autumn festival as well as schools just reopens in Singapore. Anyway, their last order was at 9.30pm as the mall close at 10.30pm daily. I was hungry and order quite lot of food. Here they are:-

My favorite...chawanmushi  ...and which they steamed deliciously! One of the better ones around

Assortment of sushis

Salmon maki... my favourite too!

and the main meal...Ramen

a hot green tea to wind down...

 This cost around S$23+ but it's a great way to pamper myself on mid-autumn festival!burp.....!!!

I always thought Klang Valley always had good pan mee since I had one back in the 90s when I'm studying in KL. And yes, I tried another one of the good ones around here in Puchong. They have a varieties of Pan Mee with different types of ingredients used to made it...like spinach, kam gua and etc. And not forgetting the side orders too like fish cakes.


I usually prefers the mee hoon kueh type where the pan mee was sliced in bigger parts than the noodle lookalike. I go for the spinach flavour. The soup was sweet and added in the anchovies made it even nicer. The anchovies are crispy too!

Spinach Pan mee

We got ourselves some side orders like fried fish cakes which is my favourite and fried wantons.

Fried wanton

Fried Fish Cakes

 And, of course, not forgetting a cup of kopi-O kao, which is a big glass, it seems!!

Long black ??

As usual, my adventurous bro in law always love to explore smaller towns around and we ended up in Serendah, which is around 30+ KM from KL. I definitely never been to this place though in the past, I always pass by the junction to turn into this little town when express buses were still using the old trunk road to travel between towns.

It was like back to the past or feel like back to the colonial times (though I was not born yet then) as the place came to a standstill with those pre-war and old shop houses. Some of the buildings are not well maintained and I guess it may be occupied anymore. Anyway, it was real peaceful over there and it was good to runaway from the city area.

quiet & peaceful... at the background is an hokkien association building

it's like back to the past.... folks enjoying the slow pace of life here

a run down shophouse ..

caught sight of an old but massive tortoise at a chinese temple nearby

We drove to nearby Rawang to savour the black beans fish at the well-known Lan Je restaurant by the roadside. It was very crowded by lunch time. However, their steam fish is famous and almost every table order at least two fishes, which were not very big portion.

three fishes ad three vegetables ...with a meat on the way....

it's a crowd out there..

Well, had a good time going around places nearby the city where I had never been before...